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F. H. FERRIS. VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN 7. 1914.

1,122,094. Patented Dec.22,1914.

- under sides of the FRED H. FERIRIS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

VENDING-MACHTNE.

Application filed January '2,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED H. FERRIs, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of NewYork, have invented new and useful Improvements in Vending-Machines, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The general object of this invention is to refine the construction ofcoin-controlled vending machines in point of simplicity and cheapness inmanufacture, and in eiliciency of operation.

.A further object of the inventionis to pro vide an attractive machineof this character especially adapted for the vending of penny goodspreviously packed in rolls. And to these ends the invention consists ofa casing having transversely mounted in its lower end, a controllerhaving coin and stock receiving pockets and a spring keeper for normallyretaining the controller in a locked osition until released by a coin.

Other objects will appear and be better understood from thatembodimentof my invention of which the following is a specification,reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, inwhich 1- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device. Fig. 2 is a rearelevational view of the front casing. Fig. 3 is a side elevational viewof the device having a portion broken away for the sake of clearness.Fig. t is a detail perspective view of the keeper.

5 is adetail perspective view of the controller. I

By referring to the drawings 1 indicates the casing having a stockreceiving compartment 2, a .coin receiving compartment 3, a coin chute 4and a controller 5 normally retained in its locked position by means ofthe spring keeper 6. H

The casing is preferably formed of metal and consists of the back plate7 and the front member 8 which are secured together at one end by thekey-actuated lock 9. The front member 8 is provided at its lower endwith an opening 10, which admits of the projecting therethrough of thetray 11 carried by the plate 7 "for the purpose of delivering the goodsto an operator. The

' front member are pro- 12-42 which are adapted the eyelets provided inthe plate 7 videdwith lugs to engage with forwardl -bent end 13 of therear as shown in Fig. 3. It is to Specification of Letters Patent.

troller being rotated by the Fig.

the trough or be understood Patented Dec, 22, 1914..

1814. Serial No. 810,870.

that the back plate is to be secured to a suitable base such as the backof a theater-seat or the like, thus when refilling the stockcompartment5, the front casing is removed from the plate 7. The stock of goods isthen renewed, and the lugs of the member 8 are placed in engagement witheyelets of the back plate as shown, and the two members are lockedtogether. The front member is swelled outwardly as shown at 14, in orderto accommodate thecontroller 5 and is provided with an extending portion14' in which is located the coin-compartment 3, for receiving the coins.

Located within the swelled portion 14: and yournaled in opposite sidesof the casing is the controller,5, which has one end 16 extendingthrough the upon which is secured a handle 17 for operating the same.The end 16 is substantially of less diameter than the controller and soprovides a shoulder 18, which cotiperates with a flange 19 located onthe end to provide a pocket 19 for the coil spring 20. This spring ispositioned within the pocket as shown, and has one end secured to thecont-roller as at 21, while its other end is engaged by the lug 22mounted on the inner side of the casing; obviously, upon the conhandle17 this spring is tensioned, and upon the operating force being removedfrom the handle, the spring will tend to return the controller to itsinitial or normal position.

The body-portion of the controller is formed so as to provide a troughor pocket 23 for carrying the individual units of stock and deliveringthesame onto the serving tray 11, when the handle is rotated as abovedescribed, and it will be seen that when the controller is returned toits normal position, pocket 28 will be adapted to receive the nextsucceeding package or roll of goods.

It will be noted by referring to Figs. 2 and 5 that the controller 5 isprovided with a radially extending lug 24: which is so positioned thatwhen the controller is rotated, it

will be engaged by the offset finger 25 of the spring keeper 6 which issecured to the easing by the screws 27 as shown, adjacent to this lug,and also provided on the controller is a. coin-receiving pocket 28 whichis adapted to retain a coin when the same drops down the chute 4 fromthe slot at the head of the casing. The diameter of this coinside of thecasing and pocket is to be appreciably less than the coin it is adaptedto receive, and therefore shown, the back of the lug 24 is rounded, so ithe coin will be eccentrically positioned within the pocket; andobviously, when the controller is rotated, the coin will tend to cam thekeeper backwardly and thus remove the offset finger 25 out ofengagementwith the lug 24, thus allowing the controller to have a freemovement for the purpose of delivering its package onto the tray; and asthe coin passesuth'e end of the keeper 6 it will drop into thecoin-compartment 3. As

as to admit the return thereof under the end of the keeper 6 when thespring 20 returns the controller to its normal position as previouslydescribed.

It will be seen that the mechanism is carried by the front member 8, andthat the compartment 2 is provided above the pocket 23;'thus the frontpart may be readily removed and filled with a new stock. In order tolimit the forward movement of the handle 17 a lug 29 is positioned onthe outer side of the casing in the path of the handle, and oppositelyadjacent to the lug 29 is a second lug 30 which serves to limit therearward movement of the handle.

7 hat is claimed as new is: In a vending machine a casing having a coinchute, an article controller journ'aled in the casing and disposedtransversely of the coin chute, said controller having a coin pocketdisposed in alinement with the coin chute the said pocket being less indiameter than the controller, said controller having an outstanding luglocated at theside of said pocket, and a resilient keeper located in thecasing at one side of the coin chute and having a free end portiondisposed opposite the said pocket and located beyond the periphery ofthe controller, said keeper also having at its free end portion a fingernormally disposed in the path of movement of the lug.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

FRED H. FERRIS. l Vitnesses:

W. E. PALMER, Geo. A. BYRNE.

